Word: louisianian
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...fellow-members went climbing over their desks to pump his hand in congratulation for a deed many of them had long lacked the nerve to do. But the price to be paid for trading parliamentary mud with the "Kingfish" was soon exacted. Returning to the fray, the button-nosed Louisianian accused Senator Robinson of double-crossing him on patronage, asserted that President Roosevelt had told him [Long] to keep Senator Robinson "in trouble," revealed that Senator Robinson had made his brother-in-law Federal Rice Administrator in Louisiana. "Threatening to campaign against Senator Robinson's re-election...
...catalogue of the dramatic relies which compose this play would include; the aging and virgin aunt with a frustrated youth, the very Louisianian young blade, with a hot temper, a sense of honor, and a complete faith in the economic and political future of the South, the plague of yellow fever as a fearful background, the duel, the darkies and pickaninnies, the decayed family, and finally, the deserted mansion. But Davis is not true to the romance of "swords and roses"; he fumbles a little psychopathology into the plot, and his play quavers ridiculously for two acts between Eugene...
...till her late husband's place, was asked to step aside. Her election, allegedly steamrollered by the Long machine, was contested by Jared Y. Sanders Jr., victorious candidate of a "citizens' election" (TIME, Dec. 18 ). The matter was referred to Elections Committee No. 3, on which no Louisianian...
...income started press stories that the Senator might soon be prosecuted by the Treasury on charges of tax evasion. Senate wiseacres concluded that the widening rift between Senator Long and President Roosevelt is attributable to this tax matter, held by the Administration like a club over the Louisianian's unruly head...
Cried he: "The house of Morgan is the undisputed kingfish of the banking situation!" The galleries tittered but Senator Glass, deaf to the long outpourings, did not look up from the book he was reading. Sticking fairly close to his subject the Louisianian rambled...